21 WFMJ archives / August 28, 2000 | Workers from Tinkler Construction of Warren guide the steeple on the new church at Western Reserve Village at the Canfield Fairgrounds 25 years ago. A crane from Diamond Steel lowered the steeple. 

August 31 

2000: The owners of Physicians Dialysis Center in Youngstown say they are searching for clues as to why 21 patients fell ill during dialysis. One has died. 

Youngstown Law Director Robert Bush Jr. says Youngstown's City Charter prohibits council from taking direct control of the $28 million downtown arena project. A compromise to give council some oversight is in the works. 

Youngstown Mayor George McKelvey says he wants free downtown parking as soon as possible, or he'll take a sledgehammer to the meters. 

The Charlie Daniels Band rocks the Canfield Fair grandstand with its style of Southern rock, blues, and gospel. 

 

1985: Ruth E. Horner of New Jersey is named Youngstown's first female postmaster. She will oversee the downtown post office and manage 118 other offices in the area. 

Youngstown State University is tightening restrictions on moonlighting by teachers, prompting one YSU professor to resign his full-time position at the Community College of Beaver Township in Pennsylvania. 

The Youngstown State University Foundation is providing the university with $1.3 million for scholarships during the 1985-86 academic year.

 

1975: Some 54,000  students return to Trumbull County public school classrooms, according to estimates by the 21  school districts.  There is a decrease of 1,400 students from the previous year. 

Imelda Marcos, wife of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is a guest of the pianist Van Cliburn as he performs with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossom Music Center. 

Youngstown public schools expect about 21,000 students to enter the classroom this year, about 900 fewer than in September 1974.

 

1950: Titanium, the lightweight wonder metal, is rolled into sheets on a regulation sheet-steel rolling mill for the first time at the Niles Rolling Mill plant, the Sharon Steel Corp announces. 

Mahoning County's 104th annual Canfield Fair is in full swing with thousands of youngsters pouring through the gates under gray, rainy skies. 

High holiday services at Temple Emanu-El will be chanted by Cantor Abraham Verboda of New York, a former musical director at the Jewish Center of University Heights.